"Make an informed choice!" says the Fawcett Society in its eve-of-poll "What About Women?" update. And the obvious choice, judging by the survey results cited by the leading women's organisation, appears to be the Green Party.
The survey results show Green candidates overall out-performing Labour and Lib Dem candidates by a factor of well over two-to-one, in terms of supporting the aims outlined by the Fawcett Society. And, proportionally speaking, more than TWENTY TIMES as many Greens as Conservatives were ready to support all of the Fawcett Society's demands.
Priority issues affecting women
During the election campaign the Fawcett Society has been running a survey asking important questions of all candidates - questions relating to some of the highest-priority issues affecting women in the UK. The Fawcett Society's eve-of-poll update explains:
"Election day is almost upon us, but which of your candidates will fight for women’s rights? As part of our election campaign ‘What About Women?’, Fawcett contacted candidates from around the country to ask whether they would support action on women’s inequality in their constituency and the wider UK. Candidates were asked to give a yes or no answer to three questions:
"'Will you 1) support local and national action to tackle the gender pay gap? 2) increase support services for women victims of rape as well as address the low level of rapes that end in a conviction? and 3) work with Fawcett and others to ensure that both local and national deficit cutting proposals are assessed in terms of how they would impact on women – both regarding access to public services and women’s income?'"
And the results by the day before polling day were as follows: of the candidates Fawcett contacted:
A Green Party spokesperson commented today: "We welcome the Fawcett Society's survey. It further reinforces our view that if the media were to focus on the policy choices available to electors, rather than on the personalities of just three party leaders, the landscape of British politics would be very different."